date format in parseDirListingForUnix in R2021b

Hi Experts,

I got a result from my "dir" to my sftp with ServerLocale de_DE but it cant parse files with dates from beginning of months.

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2021b\toolbox\matlab\io\ftp\+matlab\+io\+ftp\parseDirListingForUnix.m errors due to

makeDate = "1-Okt-2022 00:10:00" which does not fit the format "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"

I see I cant change that code and cant change the server output.

Any suggestions? Thanks, Rafael

Answer 1

[Rafael]

that works for me now:

add a custom parser function with name value pair in sftp call

"DirParserFcn", @myCustomDirParser

and within this transform the given date information into a format accepted by datetime function, see also https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1602180-problem-with-datetime-in-german

Answer 2

[Piyush Dubey]

Hi Rafael,

To parse the date in a particular format, a shell script can be used in post processing the data just before the output is generated from the server in a Unix environment.

A pre-processing script or MATLAB function maybe used before performing further computations on data at the recipient server. “datestr” might be helpful.

Follow this documentation to learn more about “datestr”:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/datestr.html

Hope this helps.

[Rafael]

thanks for the suggestion, but I think this is out of range for me since I have no control over the server myself. I did work out a customDirParser function with help of mathworks support. thats fine now.